Daytrippers

Daytrippers: Songs Of The Beatles is a 2005 British compilation compact disc featuring jazz and soul renditions of Beatles songs (and one George Harrison solo track) from the Atlantic and Warner catalogs. It features songs by Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Herbie Mann, Carmen McRae, and many more. This was released by Warner Strategic Marketing.

Directly across the Bay from San Francisco, in Alameda County, lies a thirty mile band of suburbia encompassing small cities like San Leandro, Hayward, Union City and Castro Valley, topped and tailed by Oakland and Fremont and linked by the winding thoroughfare of East 14th Street. A century ago, this was where a fledgling movie industry briefly considered making a home, before it discovered Hollywood to the south. And forty years ago, the East Bay brimmed with another 20th Century popular cultural phenomenon: the garage band. The ‘adult’ rock shenanigans of San Francisco’s hippie clique would have little impact in the clubs and dancehalls of this particular locale. Local teens demanded tough, danceable rock and soul: entertainment, not enlightenment.